P E Plans Expansion Of Service
The Potomac Edison Company and its subsidiaries budgeted over 2 million dollars in 1960 for expansion and improvement of electric service. A proposed 270 mile high voltage line from the station in Petersburg Virginia to Luray Virginia is planned at cost near 2 million. PE reports total customers at 164,500, up 3.59 percent year over year, with residential use rising seven percent and industrial demand up over 33 percent, reflecting growth in the four state service area.
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Potomac Edison Company
Case
Smuthon
Dent HD EE Swinkz
Ali Company
Stultz
5Erton
Luray
Potomac Ecson S.stem
Imdusir
Stuk
Vse
Especall
Marumsburz Caamper of Commerce
Muthemulion Dollar Corning Glass Works
Zéent Syukkz
Amc
Sears
Io PE Electric
Generatina
Rapié
Electric uses rise in homes and plants noted in report
The report highlights growing electricity use for heating, cooling, clothes drying and TV in industrial plants and homes. It cites residential electric ranges jumping from 30 to 51 percent and electric water heaters from 10 to 36 percent over ten years. Board members from Frederick area attended along with company officials and attorneys. The West Penn Electric Company of New York City was represented.
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Frederick
Raymond E Creager
Thurmont
Mervyn C. Fuss
Taneytown
Harry George Jr
Brunswick
Asa H. Watkins
Mt Airy
Ann M. Creed
James McSherry
Amos Holier
West Penn Electric Company
New York City
Oysters Limited In Potomac
The Tidewater Fisheries Department warns of limited oyster stocks in deep Potomac River waters and says opening the river to patent tonging would cause almost irreversible damage. Dr. HC Bard, director, releases findings after initial engineering and scientific survey. Somerset legislators and Eastern Shore watermen may be invited by Earle S. Thompson and board officers to participate.
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Annapolis
Tidewater Fisheries Department
Potomac River
HC Bard
Byrd
Somerset County
Potomac oyster dredging probe eyed for January survey
A second river survey planned for January aims to assess oyster harvesting feasibility for watermen from St Marys Charles counties and possibly Virginia. Legislators in Somerset push to open the river to dredging or patent tonging, arguing it would enable watermen to reach Chesapeake Bay oysters, though Dr Byrd says prior surveys doubt the claims and shaft dredges work up to 22 to 24 feet. In Washington, a 40 pound Mr St Marys County turkeys a bronze broad breasted for Christmas dinner at the White House amid new deployment plans.
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St. Marys
Charles County
Virgina
Somerset
Ubhica
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac
Byrd
IKE Washington
Mr. St. Mary's Couary
Wwhite House
Eisenhouer
Charman Arthur Briscoe
Turkey presented from Thompson farm to White House aide
Bull Chapman of the St. Mary's County Development Committee presented a live bird and a gallon of oysters to Homer Gruenther, a White House aide. The turkey came from the Thompson farm at Great Mills, Maryland.
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Bull Chapman
St. Mary’s ‘County
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M. G Muller
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Phone Enterprise
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Hendrickson
Sam Miller
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Kennedy
Patrick St
Kemptown Road
Damascus
Mt. Airy
Davis
Frederick Shopping Center
Iera Mart
Kaempf and Harris, Inc
Rocky Springs
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Magnavox
William S. Hood
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